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Laiba's avatar

Ahhhh this made me cry!!!! As someone who only started wearing the hijab recently (which I owe to alot of the hijabi women I follow on the internet including you) I've found the shift in the way other girls perceive you just so jarring! I've realised people place you on their religious spectrum just by determining what type of a hijabi you are and it's something that never occured to me before! It's definitely been difficult to find like minded people in uni and I can only hope it gets better from here, thank you for this article, it's such a source of comfort during this confusing, internally chaotic time 🤍

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oh boy, this made me tear up. as a convert who struggled with finding and keeping friendships before Islam, then joining the community and instantly feeling a sense of sisterhood and closeness to a stranger simply because she gave me salaams have opened me up to a whole new meaning of sisterhood. On the flip side, I'm the girl with the odd interests and hobbies, who obvi doesn't speak arabic yet and is still finding her way in this beautiful deen and community. finding your podcast and reading your substack was kinda like "oh wait, there's Muslim girls that think like me too" lol. It's taught me to get out of my echo chamber and seek the sisterhood i've made du'a for (which has been working out so far Alhamdulillah). iA I get to meet you either in this life or the next, Nawal. may Allah bless you 🫶🏾

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